SPACE SETTLEMENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2022

Two teams from Aeross: The Aerospace Society, Team Aurora and Team Borealis, participated in the National and Asian Regional round of the Space Settlement Design Competition 2022. 

Team Borealis, along with four other teams from India forming the company Rockdonnel, emerged as the Champions of the Indian National Space Settlement Design Competition (INSSDC) while Team Aurora, who along with four other Indian teams constituted the company Vulture Aviation were the Runners-up, this allowed both teams from Aeross to qualify for the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition (ARSSC). In ARSSDC, both teams were assigned to different companies which comprised of teams from Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong and Pakistan. Both the teams emerged as the Runners-up in this round. 

The Space Settlement Design Competition 2022 (SSDC)  tasks students each year to design a space settlement in accordance with a Request For Proposal. The aim of the competition is to put students in the shoes of real-world engineers and emulate the actual work experience in the Aerospace Industry. Anita Gale, co-founder of SSDC hosted the competition. The judging panel comprised professionals from various sub-disciplines of the Aerospace Industry including, among other professionals, Anita Gale (CEO of NSS), Jack Gafford (Senior Systems Engineer at Boeing) and David Cheuvront (Engineer, NASA Johnson Space center).

To qualify for the Indian Nationals, teams had to submit proposals in a preliminary round. The 25 qualifying teams were grouped into companies of five teams each. Each student had to choose a department within the company to operate in, with their choice being governed by their expertise and interest.

Both the teams are grateful to the Principal Ms Padma Srinivasan, Mr. Ajay Goel (Physics Faculty), alumni and senior members of Aeross for their mentorship over this year-long competition. Currently, both teams are awaiting their International round qualifiers results.

Members of Team Aurora:
– Aaron Barthwal XII-H (Leader)

– Aashna Verma IX-N
– Akul Ranjan XII-J

– Ameya Aneja X-K

– Aryaa Dube X-J

– Samannita Halder XII-G

– Tanmay Arora XII-H

– Shireen Rajora XII-E

– Sneha Chandra XII-D

Former Members:

  • Apurva Thakur XII-Q
  • Harshita Bose XII-I
  • Aymandeep Chandhok IX-L

– Saksham Raheja X-L

-Krish Shah X-N (2021-21)

Members of Team Borealis:
– Ira Bhattacharya X-N (Leader)

– Abhimanyu Shetty X-J

– Arya Vikram Singh X-F (2021-2022)

– Divyansh Nayan XII-E – Hashmeet Kaur X-M  (2021-2022)
– Mana Sharma X-I (2021-2022)
– Manaal Azhar VIII-F
– Shriya Sawhney VIII-H
– Siddhanth Shetty XII-N (2021-2022)
– Swastik Agrawal XII-E
– Tanmaya Sharma IX-F

International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) Grand Award

SECOND POSITION IN “OUTSTANDING PROJECT IN ALL DISCIPLINES’Ashay Srivastava of Class XII I has won the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) Grand Award #2 position at the global level and Special Science Seed Award by Shanghai Youth Science Education Society for “Outstanding Project in all Disciplines’ while representing India among 80 countries and 1900 projects. He has also won the India final round in January from 65000 entries and has represented India on the world stage, albeit virtually. He will also have a minor planet named after him as a winner apart from getting the medal, recognition and award money.

NASA Scientist For a Day Contest

Members of Aeross: The Aerospace Society Ameya Aneja X-K, Manaal Azhar VIII-F and Kahini Kashyap IX-M won the 3rd position in the NASA Scientist For a Day Contest. 

NASA Scientist For a Day Contest (NASA SFAD) is an international science essay writing competition held by one of the NASA Laboratories – Radioscopic Power Systems. It is a competition one can participate in individually, or with a team of a maximum of 4 members. Students from Grade V to Grade XII are eligible to participate. Every year, 3 topics are provided, generally on the moons of different planets in the solar system and out of these, one can choose any one of the topics to write on. The topics and the word limit vary every year, with the word limit ranging from 300 to 500 words. One has to research deeply into the topographic, geographic and many other features of the moon they choose. One might also need to draw scientific assumptions, based on secondary research, and also display correct grammar, good vocabulary and logical thinking in the general structure of the essay. For the winners, their essays are published on the NASA Scientist For a Day website.

Ameya, Manaal and Kahini chose Titania, one of Uranus’ moons as their topic of research.

The ‘ATL Space Challenge 2021’

With innovation being at the forefront of India’s development, The ‘ATL Space Challenge 2021’ was organized by NITI Aayog and Atal Innovation Mission in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to attract the top 75 innovations from all over the country. Team AURA from Aeross: The Aerospace Society consisting of members: Divyansh Nayan (XI-E) (Team Lead), Akul Ranjan (XI-J) and Raghav Chaudhary (XI-J) emerged as the winners in the Leverage Space category.

The main objective of the ATL Space Challenge was to give an opportunity to young school students to create something in the space sector that will enable learning and provide the competitors with a platform to share their ideas for future aerospace programs. The contest was divided into four themes – Explore Space, Inhabit Space, Leverage Space, and Reach Space. 

Furthermore, Atal Innovation Motion (AIM) designed a special portal consisting of free courses and learning modules to help the participants gain considerable skills, the use of which was indispensable for success in the competition. The event saw over 6500 students from more than 2500 teams from all over India vying to attract maximum recognition for their ideas and vision. 

Team AURA submitted their innovative idea of AURA (Autonomous Rescue Vehicle) – an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle capable of locating victims in a hydrometeorological calamity and delivering the necessary medical and nutritional resources to them. The concept of AURA minimizes the human input required in monitoring and supervising rescue missions and exponentially reduces the time of each operation, leading to greater efficiency as well as improved efficacy. The innovation brings with it the promise of saving hundreds of thousands of lives that are lost due to untimely rescue during floods, cyclones, cloud bursts, rainstorms, and the like.

The team is grateful to the Principal Ms Padma Srinivasan, Mr Himanshu Bedi, Mr Ajay Goel, and Mr Sanchit Chauhan for guiding them to achieve this great feat.

‘HP SAVE THE WORLD CAMP’ ORGANISED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE UNITED STATES

 Mannat Kaur of classX -A  has been selected for the ‘HP Save the World Camp’ organised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge United States for which she has been selected out of 800+ entries comprising of students and working professionals. She has been selected in the top 10 under the ‘Girls Save the World Prize’.She has received tech packs from the sponsor HP, including a Dragonfly laptop and an HP colour printer. They would also be disbursing funding to take up her idea forward and deploy it on a large scale. 

HP will be using her headshot to promote the event on social media and press. You can know more about the event through this link – https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/solv-ed-youth-innovation-challenge

THE SECOND POSITION IN THE NATIONAL ROUND  REAL WORLD DESIGN CHALLENGE 

 Team Asteria Origin Dynamics Incorporation from The Aerospace Society, participated in the 2022 edition of the Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) and secured the second position in the National Round of this competition held in January. 

The team comprised of the following 7 members:

Aaron Barthwal XII-H (Operation Planner and Developer)

Akul Ranjan XII-J (Programme Director and Manager)

Divyansh Nayan XII-E (Mechanical and Business Analyst)

Kushagra Goel (Robotics and Electronics Engineer)

Samannita Halder XII-G (3D and CAD Specialist)

Shiven Kanodia (Components and Payload Developer)

Samriddhi Mishra XII-H (Electrical Systems Engineer)

The team had proposed their UAV ‘Asteria’ which was inspired by the Arctic Tern, a two-summer-seeking migratory bird for the fuselage. This configuration was accompanied by the Choice of a Blended Wing Body integrated with a Cyclocopter, an elaborated mission plan with a fully automated warehouse as well as higher quality equipment for both ground support and drone and for maximum efficiency.

The team is grateful to the Principal Ms. Padma Srinivasan, Mr. Ajay Goel (Physics Faculty), and senior members of Aeross: Siddhansh Narang and Ashvin Verma for their mentorship. 

The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an international Aviation design challenge organized annually by the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The competition provides high-schoolers a platform to apply concepts learnt in the classroom to address real problems faced by industries while working in a team environment. Teams are tested across multiple arenas: they must come up with a disruptive and feasible solution to a real world problem, learn to use industrial CAD/CAM and simulations softwares, engage with mentors employed in diverse STEM-related fields, and justify their design choices to prove their solution is practical and profitable enough to solve the task at hand.

In addition, they must also demonstrate proficiency in writing and convincingly presenting the value in their solutions, demonstrating industry level work ethic. 

The competition adjudges teams on both technical and soft skills, making it necessary for students to deploy efficient skill specialisation, time and work management and leadership. 

In recent years, the competition has focused on utilising Unmanned Aerial Systems to run a delivery service. Teams are tasked with designing UAVs capable of ferrying packages, creating a theory of operations, and developing a feasible business plan to operate a fleet of such UAVs commercially.

NSS SPACE SETTLEMENT CONTEST

Teams Anchises, Swastika 14191 and Mellontikos from Aeross: The Aerospace Society secured the 1st position in the XII th Grade, 2nd position in the Xth Grade  and 1st position in the VIII Grade category of the NSS Space Settlement Contest.The NSS Space Settlement Contest (NSS) is an annual international space settlement design competition open to students from grade VI  to XII all across the globe. Sponsored by the National Space Society, the competition demands students to put their creative, innovative and research  skills to test and design a free space orbital space settlement and explain the same in a proposal, with realistic as well as hypothetical aspects supported by models, experiments and scientific evidence. A proposal must include certain aspects of space settlement like life supporting systems, activities leading up to settlement and socio-economic issues that the populace might face. A budget plan, future expansion scope and self sufficiency are some aspects that are highly suggested to be taken into consideration. The teams can also apply for literature, technical  or creative submission categories which work specifically on certain aspects like report structure, technicalities & experiments and artistic value respectively. 

All participants are invited to the 2022 International Space Development Conference where the highest ranked submission from the attendees will be asked to present their work and share their experience at NSS during the conference. They would also be receiving a $5,000 Hermin Rubin memorial scholarship. 

The teams are grateful to the Principal Ms Padma Srinivasan , Mr. Ajay Goel (Physics Faculty), alumni and senior members of Aeross for their mentorship over this year-long competition. 

Members of Team Anchises:

Shriya Sawhney VIII-H

Ira Bhattacharya X-N

Tanmaya Sharma IX-F

Abhimanyu Shetty X-J

Swastik Agrawal XII-E

Arya Vikram Singh X-F (2021-2022)

Divyansh Nayan XII-E

Hashmeet Kaur X-M  (2021-2022)
Mana Sharma X-I (2021-2022)
Manaal Azhar VIII-F
Siddhanth Shetty XII-N (2021-2022)

Members of Team Swastika 14191:

Mana Sharma X-I (2021-2022)
Ira Bhattacharya X-N

Hashmeet Kaur X-M (2021-2022)

Abhimanyu Shetty X-J

Arya Vikram Singh X-F (2021-2022)

Ameya Aneja X-K

Avi Aryan X-C

Kaamyaa Negi X-O  (2021-2022)

Saksham Raheja X-L

Krish Shah X-N (2021-2022)

Members of Team Mellontikos:

Anav Jain IX-K

Anika Bose IX-H

Aymandeep Singh Chandok IX-L

Tarush Aran VIII-K

             Team Anchises

             Team Swastika 141919

             Team Mellontikos

 SCHOOL TOUR (CLASSES VI-VIII)

“A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships and new challenges. The slate is clean and a lot can happen.”

Delhi Public School, R.K Puram welcomed its students for complete offline classes on 4th April 2022 after a period of two pandemic-stricken years. The eager and enthusiastic students of Classes VI-VIII were welcomed by their class teachers with beautiful bookmarks and chocolates to start their new school year on a sweet note. 

Since the students were coming to school for the first time post pandemic, a school tour was organised for the students under the guidance of the Principal, Ms Padma Srinivasan and the Supervisor of Classes VI-VIII, Ms Vinita Gupta. The  Class Representatives of Classes VI-VIII, Ms Ekta Arora, Ms Mahima Goel, Ms Nalini Gautam, Dr P Chinna, Ms Vaishali Tiwari and Ms Divya Kapoor, organised the school tours for all the three classes in a staggered manner, following all  COVID protocols and preventive measures. During the tour, the students were escorted by their class teachers and acquainted with the infrastructure of the school campus. 

The school tour commenced from the assembly ground and then proceeded towards the football ground wherein the sports coaches introduced the students to the various sports facilities available in the school. The tour then proceeded towards the Sports Complex across the road using the overhead bridge where the students toured the cricket ground, the basketball and lawn tennis courts, the gymnasium and the swimming pool along with a quick tour of the boys hostel.   

Post the visit to the Sports Complex, the students were escorted towards the Transport Office, the School Clinic and the E Block wherein they were directed towards the Principal’s Office, the Computer Labs, the Senior Library and the AVH (Audio-Visual Hall). The students then proceeded towards the F Block touring the E-Gurukul, the staffrooms, the Accounts Offices and the classrooms for Class XII. They continued towards the OAT (the Open Air Theatre), the Girls’ Hostel and the HB Block where the classrooms of Class XI are located. 

The students were also shown the Junior Library and the D Block where they were told about the Supervisor’s room as well as the Reps’ rooms for Classes VI-VIII. They were then guided towards the Music basement and the Blossoms Block where the classrooms for Class VI are situated. The tour ended with a quick walkabout of the CB Block which has the classrooms for Class VIII and the C, B and A Blocks where the classrooms of Classes IX and X are located. 

In conclusion, the school tour was a great success with the students of Classes VI-VIII getting acquainted with the infrastructure of the school campus. It encouraged the students to start the new academic year on a positive note, with hope and motivation in their hearts and the aim to find a home away from home in the school premises.  

ORIENTATION PROGRAMME CLASS VIII

“Together may we give our children the roots to grow and the wings to fly” 

The Orientation Programme for Class VIII was organized by Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram on 12 April 2022. This was attended by the parents of Class VIII. It began with the introduction of the Class Teacher and the Subject Teachers of the respective sections.  The parents were oriented about the school rules, discipline, assessment system, subjects, covid norms and various other pertinent details.   The Supervisor, Ms. Vinita Gupta and Class VIII Reps Ms. Ekta Arora and Ms. Mahima Goel delivered the welcome address and wished them well for the new academic session.